14 Posts tagged stats
Source: National Association of REALTORS (NAR) via Lowe’s InmanNews – Daily Real Estate News The typical age for first-timers was 31, up one year from the 2010 report. The typical repeat buyer was 53, up from 49. Married couples accounted for 64 percent of recent homebuyers — the highest share since 2001. First-time buyers had a […]
Infographic published by HOATown, embedded from Visual.ly What you’ll learn about Home Owner Associations (HOAs) 8,000 new HOAs formed annually Several factors that led to the explosion of HOAs in the U.S. Approximately 25 million housing units with over 60 million residents are governed by HOAs 1.75 million people on HOA boards and 350,000 committee volunteers (1 committee […]
Property values in some Tulsa neighborhoods soar, others sink | Tulsa World (April 2011) Exceprts/Paraphrases from the article: The Tulsa World analyzed computerized land records gathered from the Tulsa County Assessor’s Office to determine the average percentage change in value for each single-family residential subdivision in Tulsa County. Overall, home prices in Tulsa County subdivisions […]
“Oklahoma’s real estate rebirth“, written by Steve Bergsman, was syndicated by Lowe’s and Inman News to a national audience of real estate professionals on September 21. What great publicity (and encouragement) for our local real estate market. Here are some quotes from the article: personal income growth at 8 percent is the fifth best in […]
Foreclosures can present good deals, but that means currently-owned real estate receives downward pricing pressure. In this current real estate market, there are many foreclosures available and I have experienced a lot of activity, including being part of multi-offer scenarios, which help increase offer prices. So showing the foreclosure numbers and trends can help you […]
This great new resource for local information and data is available to my Buyers and Sellers looking for all the details. Take a look at some sample data below… there’s a lot more where that came from. Contact us if interested in a local market area – and include the address because this can get […]
Whether you control the backend of the website you’re posting to (e.g. endzonerealty.com) or not (www.zillow.com), you have control of the content. And content is the most important factor in trying to show up in search results. If you control your own website (i.e. WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, etc.), you can use “keywords” (a “meta tag”), but they’re […]
Gas costs more when you’re not having fun I don’t like to waste money. Yesterday, I was driving to show four properties–the first was about 30 minutes away. I got about 2 minutes from the first when I realized I left my Display Key (the electronic key that opens our lockboxes) at home. It threw off my and […]
Not every one of my blog posts is a detailed how-to or a thorough research project on an important topic…. Sometimes I just like to show stuff and not say too much. Enjoy! Highlights (For those boggled by tables or too lazy to study it because of cabin fever): Tulsa County properties for sale for […]
As a follow-up to a previous post (http://endzonerealty.com/2010/the-most-popular-website-in-the-world/), I thought I’d do my best to settle the question of which real estate websites were biggest–and in what order… (I know… scary, right?) +++ Why? We’re real estate agents. Give a call. If SiteA gets 2x more traffic than SiteB, wouldn’t you expect to receive twice as many […]
